LONDON, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Consumers should not panic buy products as Britain is not heading back into a 1970s-style “winter of discontent” of strikes and power shortages, a junior minister said on Thursday. After gas prices triggered a carbon dioxide shortage, Britain was forced to extend emergency state support to avert a shortage of poultry and meat. read more“There is no need for people to go out and panic buy,” Small Business Minister Paul Scully told Times Radio. The rise in natural gas prices is adding to the sense of chaos. The cap was brought in to stop energy companies gouging consumers but has now turned their businesses unprofitable as it is below the wholesale price.

Source: Egypt Independent September 23, 2021 13:30 UTC